jlarocco

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by jlarocco 2y ago
Has anybody really said that about the internet, though? I've never heard it. Even immediately after the .com bubble burst it was still obvious the web had a ton of potential for communication, knowledge sharing, etc. The only thing A
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by jlarocco 2y ago
Why do I get the feeling that if it said something bad they would have fixed it before somebody wrote an article about it... And if they can't be trusted to get their own team biographies right, what can they get right? If a run-of-
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by jlarocco 2y ago
I wish Rust would standardize their ABI already. I started a project to call Rust from Common Lisp, but haven't got very far. It's a lot of work, and they can break compatibility at any time. If they really want to replace C and
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by jlarocco 2y ago
What's wrong with using POV-Ray?
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by jlarocco 2y ago
> IMO, the solution is apprenticeships/probationary offers. "Contract to hire" is a popular way of doing that.
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by jlarocco 2y ago
I don't know why you're down voted. Even if it doesn't get a person in trouble with HR, it'd be embaressing and humiliating to have one of those images pop up at work, in a public place, during a presentation, in front o
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by jlarocco 2y ago
I think his argument is actually that the extreme simplicity of defining a macro in CL hides the fact that writing correct macro code isn't very simple . Using gensyms to create bindings in macros is an example - it's not obviou
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by jlarocco 2y ago
Amazon is now selling the "chinese crap made to last 2 minutes": https://www.amazon.com/s?k=grip+strengthener&rh=n%3A14333021... I will no longer use Amazon for anything where I actually care about quality or
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by jlarocco 2y ago
Heh, I didn't really think about it, but to finish out the example: CL-USER> (defun foo (a b) (declare (optimize (speed 3)) (type fixnum a b)) (the fixnum (+ a b))) WARNING: redefining COMMON-LIS
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by jlarocco 2y ago
That's funny. If OpenAI's tech is so great, why aren't they using it to direct the company yet?
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by jlarocco 2y ago
https://www.amazon.com/hockey-romance-books/s?k=hockey+roman... I had no idea, either. There are stranger genres, but what an oddly specific fetish.
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by jlarocco 2y ago
I just can't feel bad for people still using Google for anything important.
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by jlarocco 2y ago
Is Common Lisp the only language with this built-in? CL-USER> (defun foo (a b) (declare (optimize (speed 3)) (type fixnum a b)) (+ a b)) FOO CL-USER> (disassembl
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by jlarocco 2y ago
Even on HN there's no nuance anymore. I suspect most Linux users don't "hate GUIs" but hate the garbage that GUIs enable, like pointless/stupid transition animations, hard to see flat UIs, dumbing down of preference
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by jlarocco 2y ago
Adding to what db48x said, the CL standard dictates what goes into the "COMMON-LISP" package (abbreviated "CL"), but also allows implementation specific additions as long as they're put in their own packages. Over
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by jlarocco 2y ago
> The videos aren't designed to promote the product. That's my point, really. Nobody's looking at influencer videos explicitly to learn what to buy or how to behave. The whole idea is to piggyback on whatever influence t
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by jlarocco 2y ago
> Influencers are just ad folks who found even the limited ethics of the big ad companies too constraining, right? I think that's confusing influencers with the companies that pay them to promote products. The whole idea with "
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by jlarocco 3y ago
So he's mad they bought promotional t-shirts after a hitting a subscription goal? If it's deeper than that, I'd recommend adding a summary. It's a big ask to expect strangers to read a ranting wall of text.
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by jlarocco 3y ago
A "real life" example of this can be found in the Ironclad cryptography library [0]. It uses this to add support for AES instructions and some other niche assembly instructions to generate fast (at least a lot faster than it woul
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by jlarocco 3y ago
These are popular with two-way radios, where they're called acoustic tube earbuds. I'd guess the tube is longer in an MRI, though.
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by jlarocco 3y ago
> Don't they end up the same size? No. Float is half the size of double.
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by jlarocco 3y ago
I've heard people bring up that problem before. On one hand they protect sites from DDOS attacks and bad actors, but on the other hand they help keep the bad actors online. If there's no abuse, nobody will pay their protection mo
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by jlarocco 3y ago
> Upvotes for whoever comes up with the most extreme response they can think of. We should breed the amoeba and purposely add it to our water supply, making the chance of infection incredibly high while simultaneously raising awareness.
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by jlarocco 3y ago
Everybody's experience is different. I've had one or two upgrade problems in the last 10 years, but otherwise the Nvidia drivers have worked great for me. My biggest complaint is they dropped support for the GPU in my Macbook, an
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by jlarocco 3y ago
There are plenty of problems with NVIDIA on Linux, but I'm sad to tell you I think this one is your own fault. The error message is telling you that you've held back broken packages that are conflicting with dependencies nvtop is
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by jlarocco 3y ago
Fair enough, hotels don't fully cover the entire AirBnB usecase, but cabin rentals and bed-and-breakfasts in the country have been around forever, too. My point is, commercial rentals exist because of the problems AirBnB are having. T
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by jlarocco 3y ago
We already have a solution, and they're called hotels. Society forgot why hotels were created, so now we're re-learning it via AirBnB.
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by jlarocco 3y ago
I think the phrase ", say #3," confuses people. Taking it out removes the ambiguity: "[The] host, who knows what’s behind the doors, opens another door which [...] has a goat." So he always shows a goat. If he opened t
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by jlarocco 3y ago
The mistake is to think there's a single "right" way to do it. Either make the UI flexible enough to accomadate everybody's personal preferences, or accept that some people won't like it and will choose something el
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by jlarocco 3y ago
Have to agree with the OP here. There may be a handful of yacc files in a large project, so prefixing them with "yy" is convenient to locate them quickly - though I'd still prefer a dedicated subdirectory. Every file in this

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